The "Voice of Canadians Committee" held their founding meeting
in Toronto on December 15/93 at the Swansea Town Hall. Self-
acclaimed as the "Unhyphenated Canadians", these reactionaries are
located between the Reform Party and the
Heritage Front on the far-right scale.

Believing that the source of their economic and social
woes stem from "taxpayer-funded special interest groups", their
material drivels on about how their "free society" and upper class
stature has been violated by immigration, employment equity, etc.
Suggested name changes: Short-Sighted-Canadians, Got-It-All-And-
Still-Want-More-Canadians, Euro-Ignoramus-Canadians, Whining-
Windbag-Canadians, Ku-Klux-Kanadians.

Finding The Antidote For CURE

An attack on anti-homophobia education is the first step in
a transparent attempt by the religious right to take control of
Metro school boards. Using front group tactics imported from south
of the border, well-known homophobia bigots have joined forced
under the banner of CURE - "Citizens United for Responsible
Education" - and taken aim at a package of mild educational reforms
introduced in the Toronto Board of Education.

With school board
elections coming up in the fall, their sights are now set on
overturning the current board and replacing them with a crop of
homophobic, conservative trustees who will roll back any small
gains made in anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-homophobic
education over the past 20 years.

CURE presents itself as a group of concerned parents who worry
that the Board's recent steps toward countering homophobia in the
school system means young people will be (gasp!) converted by pro-
queer education. In fact CURE is led by a notorious collection
right-wingers with shaky histories whose agenda includes the
supposed "curing" of queers, questionable psychiatric ideologies
and religious fundamentalism.

Watch out for CURE members, Dian
Malott and Sue Careless. Furthermore, the reforms they're attacking
were only a small step towards real (and long overdue) anti-
homophobic education. However, if we want to see large steps taken,
we'll have to wipe CURE off the map and push the Board to go the
extra mile ahead rather than letting the bunch of them drag us back
to the stone age. Students are already meeting to make sure that
these kinds of decisions - about what kind of school environment
we'll be working in - aren't made by the religious right, and more
to the point, aren't made without us! If you want to get involved,
contact us through ARA at 631-8835.

The Black community is outraged that Dudley Laws, organizer
for the Black Action Defense Committee, has been convicted of
smuggling people across the U.S.-Canadian border. In a hearing
which followed his conviction, his lawyers brought out the evidence
that at the time he was charged, Metro cops were collecting
information on Black community activists and building files on
people; some of them government employees who had never been
convicted of a crime. Laws in particular was singled out as a
target because of his leading role in demanding justice for Black
people who have suffered at the hands of Metro's finest.

His phone
was tapped for a year and undercovers were sent to him, begging for
help in leaving the country and offering money for the service.
Despite all evidence that Laws was entrapped by police because
they didn't like his politics, the judge upheld his conviction. Not
too surprising, considering this is the same judge who had ordered
the wiretap in the first place! At his most recent hearing, Laws
was sentenced to nine months in prison.

Call BADC at 416-656-2232 for an update on the case and on
efforts to further expose the malicious police campaign against the
Black community in general. BADC also needs money to cover legal
costs, so send some to their office at 386 Vaughan Road, Toronto
M6C 2N8.

"The Jewish Feminist Anti-Fascist League (JFAFL) came together
in November 1992, to join the fight against fascism at a time when
fascist and racist organizing was escalating in Toronto and
globally.

Fascism is manifested in many ways. We feel that as
Jewish feminist activists our experiences of anti-Semitism, and
also sexism, homophobia, classism, ableism, and so on, help provide
us with a complex analysis of the structure and operations of
oppression. The far right has made many gains; consider the number
of recently established white-supremacist groups and the increase
of "above ground" anti-semitic race-hate literature, as well as
fascist violence.

The extreme right has also gained legitimacy in
mainstream electoral politics across North America, as well as
internationally. Symptomatic of the rise of the neo-right are the
renewed and vicious campaigns against immigrants, refugees, gays,
lesbians, people of colour, women and people with disabilities."
(exerpt from JFAFL pamphlet, March 8/1994-International Women's
Day) JFAFL, P.O. Box 291, Stn. B, Toronto, M5T 2W2.

Commemorate the 51st Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising! An
evening of readings and presentations by the Jewish Feminist Anti-
Fascist League April 19th @ the Jewish Community Centre, Bloor &
Spadina, 7pm.

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